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  • Tanning is stupid. You’re exposed to uncontrolled UV light. The body needs exposure to UVB 280nm-315nm. LEDs come with strong 295nm, 310nm and various others. Exposure to these wavelengths is much more effective than eating foods rich in vitamin D. However, this is not for tanning. We are literally talking 60 seconds to 3 minutes or better even just a few seconds every few minutes sparsely. One idea I had was an LED placed in a hallway or the stairway with an ir detector and timer. Keep the exposures to say 6 seconds and reset the timer after 5 minutes. That would give you a comparable dose to getting it from the sun. The problem is the eye protection. Most damage comes from UVA to form cataracts. However UVB is not better.

    Anyway before you palm your face again, the sun give you the same dose as an equally calibrated dose from an LED. But the LED is better because it removes the UVC and UVA from the picture. There’s a study showing actual tests on pig eyeballs. UVA gives you cataracts. So a better idea is a specifically installed light with an activation timer that you must start by pressing a button. So you get your self yellow glasses to protect your eyes and you press the button and wait for say 15 minutes while reading a book or eating. This gives you enough UV to not need supplements. But it would not be a continuous exposure up close to a source. It would be a controlled exposure a couple of meters away from the LED and for only a few seconds every minute for 15 minutes. A prescription. Just like any other prescription.




  • I’ll believe nothing until I see it. I’ll be voting Democrat.

    Also be on the lookout for Republicans in sheep’s clothes running for local elections. You can easily tell them apart but I won’t say how. Just read the pamphlet or if they fucked up and you didn’t get one go to the website and read about the candidates. For local I’ve been picking people by their background. For example for superintendent for the school district pick a teacher. For fire fighters pick a firefighter. For other things I’ve picked engineers and science background candidates. We gotta get rid of the retarded politicians and the carrier politicians that just waste our tax money on defense and military stuff.










  • Darn! I’m North of Seattle. No hurricanes here, just slow annoying rain. Think of rain, but then imagine it only stops a couple of days of the week. Keep imagining rain, remove the Forest and the frogs and the birds. I would add rabbit squirrel, coyote, and the occasional bear or reindeer… All of them making wet sounds. Moss and algae and mycelium covering everything. Then imagine a shower with a misting effect but for every million droplets remove all but 1 droplet. That’s our rain. Everything is fucking wet all the time but just not enough to wash things clean or sometimes even to keep trees happy. Imagine having to water your plants because the daily rain wasn’t wet enough. You know when you have a sink full of dishes so you fill it with water, but then you get a call about a relative in the hospital so you leave for a month and comeback to the dishes but now all of them have these water evaporation and dry sludge lines? Yup that’s outside. I feel for the homeless here.


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    This is interesting. Just recently two of my few YouTube personalities passed away. A co worker too. My co-worker definetly had no plan and his family was left high and dry. We had Robert Murray Smith who was broken when his wife passed and he used science to go follow her. His brother quickly left his followers a message. Finally a photographer who did darkroom demos and such also died. His channel says nothing about it. So YouTube is probably making money off dead people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElL9M5GhG4 Bill Schwab